From Industry Leaders — CSII Zero Trust in Practice
Real-world deployments across energy and finance, showing how the CSII zero-trust security system rebuilds the security baseline for business access.
A State Grid Company Case
Zero-trust security upgrade for a new-type power system
While building a new-type power system, the company faced a broad application exposure surface, complex privilege management and lagging risk-behavior identification. CSII helped it select representative business scenarios and rebuild its protection system on a zero-trust architecture, delivering more fine-grained privilege control and a continuous risk-assessment mechanism.
- ✓Multi-dimensional protection across identity verification, device security and behavior monitoring
- ✓Proxies application traffic; the intelligent decision engine senses risk in real time
- ✓Seamless integration with situational-awareness platforms for efficient linkage between new and legacy systems
- ✓Integrates with unified privilege management so organization structure and privileges stay synchronized
- ✓Identity-centric continuous dynamic trust assessment that overturns traditional perimeter defense
- ✓Supports data exchange and sharing between business systems, accelerating digital transformation
While advancing the construction of a new-type power system, the company faced challenges including a broad business-application exposure surface, complex access-privilege management and difficulty in intelligently identifying and blocking risky behavior. To comprehensively strengthen cyber defense and ensure secure, stable business operation, the company selected representative business application scenarios and adopted a zero-trust security architecture to upgrade its protection system. Through more fine-grained privilege control and continuous risk assessment, this initiative aims to effectively address current and future security threats and provide solid security assurance for the company's digital transformation.
The company partnered with us and, leveraging the zero-trust security product, comprehensively raised the security level of business applications across identity verification, device security and behavior monitoring. The solution proxies application traffic and uses an intelligent decision engine to sense and assess risk in real time, while seamlessly integrating with situational-awareness platforms for efficient linkage between old and new security systems and devices. In addition, the product integrates with the existing unified privilege management platform, keeping organization structure, user information and access privileges in sync, and centrally managing and controlling users' access based on identity.
The official rollout of our zero-trust security product marks a key step for zero-trust protection in the power sector. Combining the zero-trust philosophy with grid business requirements, we overcame core technical challenges in identity verification, continuous endpoint assessment and fine-grained access control to independently develop this innovative product. It establishes an identity-centric, continuous and dynamic trust assessment system that fundamentally overturns the traditional perimeter-defense architecture. While ensuring business security, it promotes data exchange and sharing across business systems, effectively strengthens power-network security under emerging business scenarios, and provides solid assurance for business development.
Zero trust has taken a key step in the power sector, fundamentally overturning the traditional perimeter-defense architecture and providing solid security assurance for data exchange and sharing between business systems.
— Information Department, A State Grid CompanyCase Study: A Provincial City Commercial Bank
All-scenario secure financial access in the hybrid-work era
The bank's headquarters, multiple branches and partners are jointly advancing digitalization, requiring an enterprise-grade security solution for the hybrid-work era to handle the complex call relationships between services amid virtualization and containerization.
- ✓Multi-dimensional hardening through service/port access management and multi-factor authentication
- ✓Zero-trust security gateway as the single egress for externally provided services
- ✓Deployed across office and internal networks for a unified security baseline
- ✓Zero-trust architecture + trusted computing to build a virtualized, dynamic secure working environment
- ✓Sensitive-data encryption, fine-grained privileges, remote access and fully traceable outbound approval
- ✓Unified identity management and access control, balancing convenience and security
The bank's headquarters, multiple branches and partners jointly participate in R&D work. Facing the challenges of hybrid-work models brought by emerging technologies such as cloud computing and edge computing, the bank urgently needed an enterprise-grade security solution suited to the new era. Moreover, as computing demand grows and virtualization and containerization evolve, the call relationships between in-house services have become increasingly complex, making secure service-to-service communication a pressing issue.
The bank adopted our solution based on the zero-trust security philosophy. By deploying the zero-trust security product, business security was strengthened across service and port access management, multi-factor authentication and other dimensions. The zero-trust security gateway acts as the single egress for externally provided services, enabling centralized management and control of access to all in-bank resources. We recommended deploying the solution on both the office network and the internal network. By combining an advanced zero-trust architecture with trusted-computing technologies, the solution helps enterprises build a virtualized, dynamic, intelligent and highly flexible secure working environment — enhancing overall security and the ability to respond to a wide range of potential threats.
The deployment successfully addressed identity, device and behavior security issues arising from an open network environment and diverse user roles. Through sensitive-data encryption, fine-grained privilege management, efficient secure remote access and fully traceable outbound approval workflows, it effectively resolved key challenges in endpoint data protection and secure information transmission. In addition, a unified identity management and access control system was established to ensure the security of banking services, providing end users with a platform that is both convenient and highly secure.
The zero-trust solution effectively resolved key challenges in endpoint data protection and secure information transmission, building a convenient yet highly secure service platform for end users.
— Information Technology Department, A Provincial City Commercial BankReal Value for Our Customers
Quantifiable business value that the CSII zero-trust security system delivers on the customer side
Zero Core-Business Exposure
Asset stealth keeps attackers from probing the intranet, shrinking the internet-facing attack surface at its source.
All-Scenario Secure Access
Unified secure access for headquarters, branches, remote work and partners.
Real-Time Risk Visibility
The intelligent decision engine responds in milliseconds; situational-awareness linkage leaves no place for risk to hide.
Compliance in One Pass
Meets classified-protection 2.0, crypto-assessment and Xinchuang requirements, with fully traceable audits and logs.
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